Apple announces - 300,000+ iPad Apps as of Jan.1, 2013
Please NOTE: Pricing on the following Apps are in a constant state of change!
iBooks: FREE
An amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.
Story Telling Apps -The following Three Apps:
You can use the following three apps to have students retell, summarize, or complete a virtual reader’s theater. Mood, plot, setting, theme can all be portrayed. Their finished product can be shared with you, literature circles, or small groups or the whole class
Sock Puppet - FREE
Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.
Friends can work together with multiple puppets and create hilarious conversations. While recording, simply tap a puppet and that puppet will lip-synch, tap a different puppet and switch auto lip-synching to it. Switch backgrounds to take your puppets to different places, move the puppets, props and scenery to animate them while recording. Cartoon and photo realistic puppets are included
Puppet Pals HD - FREE
Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time!
Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later.
This app is as fun as your own creativity. Act out a story of Pirates on the high seas, fight as scary monsters, or play the part of a Wild West bandit on the loose. You can even combine any characters however you want!
Toontastic - FREE
Creating cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show - simply press the record button and tell your stories through play! Once you’re done, share your cartoons with friends & family around the world.
Writing Apps
Inkflow - FREE
Visual Thinkers Rejoice!
Inkflow works like a word-processor for visual thinking. Capture your ideas as easily as with pen and paper, then arrange and reorganize them with your fingers!
Pen and Paper - $1.99
Forget your conventional pencil and paper. Pen and Paper is a state of the art modernized version of the notebook. Pen and Paper enables you to zoom into very small details while you write your notes. Simply pinch and drag with two fingers to zoom and pan. This allows you accurately draw or edit very small details.
You can draw with your finger, but you can also double tap to easily add text, and add geometric primitives, arrows, and photos. Move and resize parts of your note easily, with the area selection tool. Add rounded boxes with shadows around text and use arrows to draw diagrams. Include photos for references. Draw detailed sketches.
To share your notes with the world, simply email them as PDF. Dropbox integration enables you to upload/download notes to your Dropbox account, so you can easily continue with a note you began on your iPad on your iPhone. Import and annotate PDFs. Pick a landscape layout with the source PDF to the right, and add valuable comments on the left.
Notability - $0.99
Full-featured Handwriting **
Stunning retina ink makes capturing ideas easy and awesome. Notability's zoom window helps you quickly and clearly draw every detail, while the palm rest protects your notes from unwanted marks. Our scissors let you copy, move and even re-style the color and width of any retina ink. Organizing notes is a joy: drag-and-drop razor-sharp thumbnails, and add or remove pages as needed. Your notes should be as unique as you are, so choose a paper to fit your style and use a variety of pen colors and widths to create beautiful notes.
uPad lite: FREE
Equipped with the best handwrite drawing engine in the world, UPAD will surprise you when you start to write on it with a stylus pen or your finger – because it brings a feeling very close to writing on an actual paper!
UPAD promised smoothness and speed, on top of countless differentiated features from other similar apps.
Notebook -FREE
The Clockwork Notebook is a simple application for doodling on your iPad. Type with the keyboard, draw with your fingers and add stickers to your pages (use ours, or add your own from your photo library!). Great for kids, grandmas and all the people in between. It’s so easy even executive-level people can use it. Plus it's free so the ROI is, like, amazing.
Type on PDF -FREE
Introducing Type on PDF - the new iOS app that makes filling out PDF forms extremely simple. Users can both type or write on PDF forms and then export them as PDFs via email or to any other app that accepts PDF. This version also includes powerful image tools to allow you to place images from clipboard, camera, or library right on the PDF page.
Annotate PDF - $1.99
Read and annotate PDF documents. Annotate with drawings, highlighting text, text notes, photos and stamps. Annotations are compatible with Apple Preview and Adobe Acrobat!
The free Dictionary.com app delivers content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, including nearly 1,000,000 definitions. No Internet connection is needed. The app also features audio pronunciations
In a World.... Drama: $1.99
Create your own movie trailer for any situation. With almost 400 audio clips to choose from, you have over 2 TRILLION possible combinations. Create scenarios to tell most any kind of story. You create the script, add your own images, choose the music, etc...
StoryKit: FREE
Create an electronic storybook. Create the text, add photos or drawings and then add sounds or music. This is perfect to share with friends or with a class or your stories can always remain private.
Strip Creator: $2.99
Create your own personal comic strips using the photos from your photo album or iPhone camera. You can even create cool strips that look like film-rolls! Add text balloons and boxes where you want and customize the font, colors and opacity and size.
iPhrase: $0.99
The game for creating random, hilarious or emotional phrases or poetry from a selection of words. Take screenshots of your creations and send them to friends to let them know what's on your mind or pick a funky background and display your creation.
Flipbook: FREE + $4.99
FlipBook has everything you need to get started animating, from an eraser to onion skinning (which lets you see a faint image of the previous and next frames) to layered drawing. Load images from your photo library, including images taken with your iPhone's camera, and draw on top of them. Touch Play when you're ready your movie.
23,469 Books: FREE
Unlocks a menu of public domain content, allowing you to acquire some of the great books of human history. Letters of leaders, the collected works of geniuses, the finest Victorian novels, the plays of Shakespeare, the philosophy of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Carnegie.
Free Audiobooks: FREE
We take 2,947 of the greatest classic books in human history, package up their audiobooks, and make them available to download and listen to anytime, anywhere. No nickel and diming, no extra fees- you get the entire collection for less than a cup of coffee.
Wattpad: FREE
YouTube for ebooks, Wattpad is the world's most popular ebook community where readers and writers discover, share and connect. Upload your own story With over 1 million downloads per month, Wattpad is the world's most widely used mobile ebook application and one of the world's largest collections of originally-created ebooks.
Wordflick: FREE
A fast-paced, arcade-style, word game for the Touch devices. Wordflick is truly addictive, because it is so intuitive; it is easy to play, yet a challenge to master. The goal of the game is to score points in the allowed time. Flick or drag game tiles to the bottom of the screen to spell words. The longer the word, the more points.
StoryPages: $2.99
Lets you create storyboard style pages with your drawing in a top panel and typed text in a bottom panel like a storyboard used during movie production. Draw in fullscreen and optionally add a background or use as a tracing template with transparency control. StoryPages can be used for sketching movie scenes, animations, and comics.
Shakespeare - All the World’s a Stage: $3.99
Page Turning,Settings,Menus & Table Of Contents Uniquely Designed Rich Graphical User Interface Designed with focus on reading, menus and settings are out of the way but easily accessible. Intuitive Design, Sun Table Of Content System, 3D Page Turning, Search, BookMark. (Iphone)
WritePad: $9.99
A text editing software that allows users to enter text simply writing with your finger on the touch screen in either landscape or portrait mode employing your own handwriting style. It also allows easily switching between the handwriting recognition and the standard iPhone keyboard.
Goodreader:$0.99
If you need to read huge PDF files, you've come to the right place. Faithful users of GoodReader have reported flawless performance with files over 1 gig in size; but that's only one of the many features that makes GoodReader the best app of its kind. Within moments of downloading GoodReader, you'll be transferring files.
Quote Book: $0.99
Quote Book is a fully featured book of quotes which allows you enjoy words of wisdom wherever you are. Specifically designed to utilize the features and navigation of the iPhone, this application allows you to browse, bookmark your favorite quotes, easily add your own quotes and even email a quote to your family and friends.
Idioms: $2.99
Idioms is a multiple choice quiz system for English which provides 700 common idiomatic questions. Designed to provide a method of acquiring idiomatic expressions and a context for using them in everyday English conversation.
Blanks: FREE - Iphone
A simple application helping you to learn new
English words. It shows you word definition and gives 4 choices as answer. Select one of the choices by dragging it on the hole in the paper. If you are correct, a green hock is displayed. If the selected word does not fit to the definition, you will see a red cross.
d2u: FREE -Iphone
A world-class voice recorder with the one of the world’s top Transcription Services to provide you with the best dictation and transcription solution available. Record, edit and upload a digital recording then have the file accurately and efficiently transcribed to text anywhere, at anytime. All you need is an Internet connection.
3D Bookshelf: $0.99 -Iphone
Enjoy some of the most time-honored stories ever written with the world's first fully 3D eBook application for Touch devices. Each book is recreated in full 3D and can be taken from the shelf and opened to any page. Immerse yourself in the romance of reading with the sound of the leather-bound book covers creaking and the pages turning.
English iPad Apps
Apple announces - 300,000+ iPad Apps as of Jan.1, 2013
Please NOTE: Pricing on the following Apps are in a constant state of change!
An amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.
Story Telling Apps -The following Three Apps:
You can use the following three apps to have students retell, summarize, or complete a virtual reader’s theater. Mood, plot, setting, theme can all be portrayed. Their finished product can be shared with you, literature circles, or small groups or the whole class
Sock Puppet - FREE
Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.Friends can work together with multiple puppets and create hilarious conversations. While recording, simply tap a puppet and that puppet will lip-synch, tap a different puppet and switch auto lip-synching to it. Switch backgrounds to take your puppets to different places, move the puppets, props and scenery to animate them while recording. Cartoon and photo realistic puppets are included
Puppet Pals HD - FREE
Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time!Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later.
This app is as fun as your own creativity. Act out a story of Pirates on the high seas, fight as scary monsters, or play the part of a Wild West bandit on the loose. You can even combine any characters however you want!
Toontastic - FREE
Creating cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show - simply press the record button and tell your stories through play! Once you’re done, share your cartoons with friends & family around the world.Writing Apps
Inkflow - FREE
Visual Thinkers Rejoice!Inkflow works like a word-processor for visual thinking. Capture your ideas as easily as with pen and paper, then arrange and reorganize them with your fingers!
Pen and Paper - $1.99
Forget your conventional pencil and paper. Pen and Paper is a state of the art modernized version of the notebook. Pen and Paper enables you to zoom into very small details while you write your notes. Simply pinch and drag with two fingers to zoom and pan. This allows you accurately draw or edit very small details.You can draw with your finger, but you can also double tap to easily add text, and add geometric primitives, arrows, and photos. Move and resize parts of your note easily, with the area selection tool. Add rounded boxes with shadows around text and use arrows to draw diagrams. Include photos for references. Draw detailed sketches.
To share your notes with the world, simply email them as PDF. Dropbox integration enables you to upload/download notes to your Dropbox account, so you can easily continue with a note you began on your iPad on your iPhone. Import and annotate PDFs. Pick a landscape layout with the source PDF to the right, and add valuable comments on the left.
Notability - $0.99
- Full-featured Handwriting **
Stunning retina ink makes capturing ideas easy and awesome. Notability's zoom window helps you quickly and clearly draw every detail, while the palm rest protects your notes from unwanted marks. Our scissors let you copy, move and even re-style the color and width of any retina ink. Organizing notes is a joy: drag-and-drop razor-sharp thumbnails, and add or remove pages as needed. Your notes should be as unique as you are, so choose a paper to fit your style and use a variety of pen colors and widths to create beautiful notes.uPad lite: FREE
Equipped with the best handwrite drawing engine in the world, UPAD will surprise you when you start to write on it with a stylus pen or your finger – because it brings a feeling very close to writing on an actual paper!UPAD promised smoothness and speed, on top of countless differentiated features from other similar apps.
Notebook -FREE
The Clockwork Notebook is a simple application for doodling on your iPad. Type with the keyboard, draw with your fingers and add stickers to your pages (use ours, or add your own from your photo library!). Great for kids, grandmas and all the people in between. It’s so easy even executive-level people can use it. Plus it's free so the ROI is, like, amazing.Type on PDF -FREE
Introducing Type on PDF - the new iOS app that makes filling out PDF forms extremely simple. Users can both type or write on PDF forms and then export them as PDFs via email or to any other app that accepts PDF. This version also includes powerful image tools to allow you to place images from clipboard, camera, or library right on the PDF page.
Annotate PDF - $1.99
Read and annotate PDF documents. Annotate with drawings, highlighting text, text notes, photos and stamps. Annotations are compatible with Apple Preview and Adobe Acrobat!PDF Annotation APPS - Awesome Web Site for Apps
The free Dictionary.com app delivers content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, including nearly 1,000,000 definitions. No Internet connection is needed. The app also features audio pronunciations
Create your own movie trailer for any situation. With almost 400 audio clips to choose from, you have over 2 TRILLION possible combinations. Create scenarios to tell most any kind of story. You create the script, add your own images, choose the music, etc...
Create an electronic storybook. Create the text, add photos or drawings and then add sounds or music. This is perfect to share with friends or with a class or your stories can always remain private.
Create your own personal comic strips using the photos from your photo album or iPhone camera. You can even create cool strips that look like film-rolls! Add text balloons and boxes where you want and customize the font, colors and opacity and size.
The game for creating random, hilarious or emotional phrases or poetry from a selection of words. Take screenshots of your creations and send them to friends to let them know what's on your mind or pick a funky background and display your creation.
FlipBook has everything you need to get started animating, from an eraser to onion skinning (which lets you see a faint image of the previous and next frames) to layered drawing. Load images from your photo library, including images taken with your iPhone's camera, and draw on top of them. Touch Play when you're ready your movie.
Unlocks a menu of public domain content, allowing you to acquire some of the great books of human history. Letters of leaders, the collected works of geniuses, the finest Victorian novels, the plays of Shakespeare, the philosophy of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Carnegie.
We take 2,947 of the greatest classic books in human history, package up their audiobooks, and make them available to download and listen to anytime, anywhere. No nickel and diming, no extra fees- you get the entire collection for less than a cup of coffee.
YouTube for ebooks, Wattpad is the world's most popular ebook community where readers and writers discover, share and connect. Upload your own story With over 1 million downloads per month, Wattpad is the world's most widely used mobile ebook application and one of the world's largest collections of originally-created ebooks.
A fast-paced, arcade-style, word game for the Touch devices. Wordflick is truly addictive, because it is so intuitive; it is easy to play, yet a challenge to master. The goal of the game is to score points in the allowed time. Flick or drag game tiles to the bottom of the screen to spell words. The longer the word, the more points.
Lets you create storyboard style pages with your drawing in a top panel and typed text in a bottom panel like a storyboard used during movie production. Draw in fullscreen and optionally add a background or use as a tracing template with transparency control. StoryPages can be used for sketching movie scenes, animations, and comics.
Page Turning,Settings,Menus & Table Of Contents Uniquely Designed Rich Graphical User Interface Designed with focus on reading, menus and settings are out of the way but easily accessible. Intuitive Design, Sun Table Of Content System, 3D Page Turning, Search, BookMark. (Iphone)
A text editing software that allows users to enter text simply writing with your finger on the touch screen in either landscape or portrait mode employing your own handwriting style. It also allows easily switching between the handwriting recognition and the standard iPhone keyboard.
If you need to read huge PDF files, you've come to the right place. Faithful users of GoodReader have reported flawless performance with files over 1 gig in size; but that's only one of the many features that makes GoodReader the best app of its kind. Within moments of downloading GoodReader, you'll be transferring files.
Quote Book is a fully featured book of quotes which allows you enjoy words of wisdom wherever you are. Specifically designed to utilize the features and navigation of the iPhone, this application allows you to browse, bookmark your favorite quotes, easily add your own quotes and even email a quote to your family and friends.
Idioms is a multiple choice quiz system for English which provides 700 common idiomatic questions. Designed to provide a method of acquiring idiomatic expressions and a context for using them in everyday English conversation.
A simple application helping you to learn new
English words. It shows you word definition and gives 4 choices as answer. Select one of the choices by dragging it on the hole in the paper. If you are correct, a green hock is displayed. If the selected word does not fit to the definition, you will see a red cross.
A world-class voice recorder with the one of the world’s top Transcription Services to provide you with the best dictation and transcription solution available. Record, edit and upload a digital recording then have the file accurately and efficiently transcribed to text anywhere, at anytime. All you need is an Internet connection.
Enjoy some of the most time-honored stories ever written with the world's first fully 3D eBook application for Touch devices. Each book is recreated in full 3D and can be taken from the shelf and opened to any page. Immerse yourself in the romance of reading with the sound of the leather-bound book covers creaking and the pages turning.
LIST OF UNREVIEWED ENGLISH APPS - New Additions
Credit for this amazing list goes to: gregory.swanson@mce.nsw.edu.au and his Blog @ http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/p/english-ipad-apps.html